Term used in forums and chat to express: Shut the fuck up and bye!! . Rarely used, but it's getting common. Used to shut up someone and retire from the conversation.
A way to slow down the amount of information that travels through your modem to various electronic objects. Most common games where standby is found is in Gears of War 2 and Halo1,2,3. In the games, it lags all the players except the host (only if on a P2P server such as GoW2) so that the host can killeveryone with no problem whatsoever.
OMFG that little piece of shit standbyed me!!!! WTF???? THIS IS BULLSHIT!!!
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)